The survivalist's dream food, chia seeds!

[hueyeats]

Originally Posted by MTSilvertip

You can eat acorns, but you have to leach the tannic acid out of them or they are super bitter. If I remember right, you need to put them in water overnight, change the water, and do it again about 3 times before they become usable.

Indians used to grind them and make flour for firebreads.

Not a lot of them in my neck of the woods as there are few hardwoods here in the dry frozen north, but there are a few oaks grown by people inside city limits, so I don't have a lot of experience with them.
Pine nuts are more my speed

Thanks for the insight... mmmm I love toasted pine nuts, have them too.

[SCGranny]

Great, now that song from the seventies' commerical is stuck in my head...

[gwynedd1]

Originally Posted by hueyeats

Will check it out... great info.

Anyone here knows if acorn is a good survivalist food too?
I've got a ton of oak trees here and gazillions of acorns thus amazing numbers of fat squirrels & birds (I can get my DD to shoot them for meat pies and such).

Hi hueyeats,

Its just good food. Acorn is up there with the major staples in survival value in the same category as bread fruit trees and potatoes. If you had to, the weevil larvae is supposed to taste like egg yolk, and would be quite valuable in this regard. Easy to collect to since they will exit a pile of acorns into what ever container you have waiting. I used them for fresh pet food.

As a matter of fact I will be processing batch tonight since its done leaching. Its time to strain and dry them. Though I tend to cold leach them over 1-3 weeks. People usually become too impatient and eat them when they are still bitter. You can leach in several ways including a fast version of cold leaching or boiling large pieces with several changes of water continuously.

[gwynedd1]

The acorns turned out great. Having acorn jelly for lunch...